News from CILIP
 Special
Support for Youth
and Schools Library and Information Professionals
CILIP moves to ensure
continuity of provision for all its advice services
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals,
has announced that Judith Howells is to be acting Youth and Schools
Adviser, following the departure of Jonathan Douglas to take up his
new post at
Resource.
Judith is currently Assistant Professional Adviser with special
responsibility for public libraries. To help her continue her oversight
of important
advocacy work and toolkit developments in the public libraries field,
she will be assisted by Damien McManus, who is Assistant Information
Manager in CILIP Information Services.
In addition, CILIP member Liz Dubber,
Chair of the Youth & Schools
Panel, has agreed to act as a conduit and contact point for existing
high profile specialist projects such as Start with the Child and the
Early Years Network. Further champions will be identified for future
projects as appropriate.
"I am delighted to be able to announce Judith’s
interim appointment,” said
CILIP’s Director of Member Services Sue Brown. “Our ongoing
fundamental review of services means that it is not possible to make
a permanent appointment at present, and we will of course give Judith
every support in her new role.”
Moves will also be made to provide
opportunities for members of the Association of Senior Children’s
and Education Librarians (ASCEL) and the School Libraries Association
(SLA), as well as CILIP’s Youth and School
Libraries Groups, to develop roles for their members in these areas. “The
work undertaken by the Youth & School Advisers has always been to ‘open
doors’ for members to step through, and to establish sustainable
infrastructures for others to participate in and take forward,” added
Sue Brown. “We will of course ensure that these opportunities continue,” she
concluded.
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